Quotes About Insecurity

I'm a bit of a pessimist, oh yeah, and I always think the film I'm about to make is going to be a disaster.

Nobody has ever said to me that I was pretty, 'til I met Peter Beard.

I was awkward-looking with huge brown eyes, dark brown, pencil-straight hair styled into an old-school Romanian bowl haircut from the 1980s. And I was very, very small. I was always the tiniest kid on my street and in my classes at school... The gym was the one place I didn't have to worry about feeling awkward for being so petite.

I wouldn't get asked to dances because I wasn't as petite and cute as the other girls.

I've always been petrified of working for a boss who I didn't like but who I was in fear of, because I wanted my salary.

I was petrified about 'I'm in You.' I couldn't wait to get it done to know whether it was good or not.

It was my first scene in any movie and my only scene in Kramer vs. Kramer. I was petrified.

I actually got really petrified by the thought of people seeing me.

While I believe in marriage as an institution, I am also petrified of it.

I went through a really good-looking phase from birth to 9. And then things went crazy. I don't know what happened, but between 9 and 14 it was really, really rough. I didn't have a lot of friends. The only ones who were nice to me were the theater kids. And they were like, 'You can come and join us. No one likes us.'

For me, my awkward phase corresponded to an interest in rock n' roll. From experience, I'm guessing an insecure childhood is probably quite a common thing among people who start a rock band.

I did have an emo phase. It was sort of like armor for me.

I went through that phase in my life where everything I did wrong was displayed into the public and all over national TV, so I went through a part of my life where I was afraid to do things because I didn't want to make a mistake.

I go through phases sometimes: 'I'm a genius; they get me,' and sometimes I'm like, 'Why does anyone want to hear me?'

My personal philosophy is, you can be sure of nothing.

It's a phobia I have. I never assume I'm going to be able to write another album after I finish one.

I'd never go under the knife because I have a phobia of needles.

I have an incredible phobia of divorce.

Phoenix Nights' was really starting to take off. But I was scared to leave my job in case things didn't work out.

I live in reality, and I know at any moment I could stop getting the phone calls and nobody wants to hear me sing or tell jokes anymore.

I hate doing photo shoots.

Every time I do photo shoots, my bottom lip and, like, my top lip are quivering because I just don't know how to look. Then the flash kind of makes me go boss-eyed sometimes.

I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.

Certainly, people feel awkward when they have their photograph taken. They want to see it, but they don't want to see it.